{"id":144,"date":"2023-02-26T00:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/?p=144"},"modified":"2023-02-26T00:54:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T00:54:08","slug":"kj-newmans-status-report-for-2-25-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/2023\/02\/26\/kj-newmans-status-report-for-2-25-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"KJ Newman&#8217;s Status Report for 2\/25\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Work this week\n<ul>\n<li>This week, I completed the schematic for our custom PCB. \u00a0This included adding as many backup plans to the board as possible so it will still work even if I made some mistakes and some parts do not work as expected. \u00a0I also had the schematic reviewed by both of my teammates and several other people to verify that I did not make any mistakes. \u00a0This included doing calculations to ensure that the board will meet all timing requirements and finding an example board using our FTDI chip, since it is fairly complicated.<\/li>\n<li>I completed our budget this week. \u00a0This included specifying the exact BOM of the board, as well as figuring out how much extra of each part to order, and how best to acquire passive components. \u00a0We are buying all parts we need, and purchasing as much as we can on multiples of 10 and 100 to get discounts. \u00a0This means that our order of passives costs $0.01 more than buying enough for 2 boards, and it has over 100 more extra parts. \u00a0The budget also includes all of our prototyping parts, 3d printing, shipping, a stencil, and everything else we will spend on. \u00a0We will have $80 left over for anything that comes up later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Schedule\n<ul>\n<li>My work is on schedule. \u00a0I wanted to complete the schematic this week, and I had it done early in the week. \u00a0We also tested the lens this week, which is ahead of schedule. \u00a0I am confident we will be able to order parts and the PCB before Spring break, as I have a week for layout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Deliverables\n<ul>\n<li>I hope to complete our layout for our pcb in the next week. \u00a0This way we can order it next week and have it in hand when we return from Spring break.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work this week This week, I completed the schematic for our custom PCB. \u00a0This included adding as many backup plans to the board as possible so it will still work even if I made some mistakes and some parts do not work as expected. \u00a0I also had the schematic reviewed by both of my teammates &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/2023\/02\/26\/kj-newmans-status-report-for-2-25-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;KJ Newman&#8217;s Status Report for 2\/25\/2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":675,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s23-teamb5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}